NEWS ALERT-IMMEDIATE ATTENTION:
If You Take DHEA Supplements, You Might Be A Criminal!
IMPORTANT: Visit www.saveoursupplements.org and enter your zip code in the upper left to e-mail your elected officials about this.
I hope this is ok to post here. I do believe this is important to all physical culturists in America. There is a move to ban supplements, yes even the natural ones those that Beverly sells!!!
It started with ephedra, then prohormones, now DHEA but it will NOT stop there.
Whatever your feelings on those supplements are, understand that these are the first dominos in a powerful lobby to take control of ALL supplements Please understand that there is a move underway backed by powerful drug companies & certain medical groups that would make you have to go to your doctor for a prescription for vitamin C & protein powder!!! This is just the start! This is not a joke! THis is very serious and many never thought it could go as far as it already has. And this lobby won't stop until your rights to choose your nutrition & nutrition supplement sources, have been taken away. Its all about money.
Do something today to protect your rights to freely choose your nutrition & the supplements you take. If you don't you will only have yourself to blame when you can no longer purchase your protein powder, or vitamins at a local health food store of your choice, but will instead be forced to pay exorbitant costs through a doctor & then pharmaceutical company!
The Link is here:
http://www.saveoursupplements.org.
Please do something today!
Thank you,
Tom
JUNE 14, 2005 CHICAGO / On May 26, 2005, Senators John McCain (R-Arizona), George Allen (R-Virginia), and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) introduced a new Senate bill, S. 1137, which seeks to add DHEA to the list of federally controlled anabolic steroids.
DHEA - or dehydroepiandrosterone - is secreted by the adrenal glands and is the most abundant natural steroid-like compound in the human body. It is involved in the manufacture of testosterone, estrogen, progesterone, and corticosterone. DHEA declines with age, so by age 65, our bodies make only 10 to 20% of what they did at age 20. DHEA has been an enormously popular anti-aging supplement for middle-aged and elderly Americans. Many anti-aging specialists believe that replacing DHEA in later life will have multiple beneficial effects. Anti-aging physicians recommend DHEA to patients because it can enhance immune resistance against infection, reduce the risk of age-related diseases, including cancer, coronary artery disease, and osteoporosis, improve blood sugar control and help prevent type II diabetes, facilitate weight loss and help convert fat to lean muscle, control Alzheimer's disease, lupus, AIDS, Epstein-Barr virus infection, and chronic fatigue syndrome, treat! herpes, menopause, depression, memory, and erectile dysfunction, and increase life expectancy.
The suggestion that DHEA can cause adverse side effects such as liver damage, stroke, heart disease, cancer, etc. in humans has, to-date, failed to be proven by scientific study. Indeed, its daily use by millions of people for general health benefits argue strongly to the contrary. The careful use of DHEA in a controlled setting, monitored by a physician, is both and safe and efficacious. To strip Americans of their access to DHEA without demonstrated public health risks is unwarranted.
Senate Bill 1137 seeks to ban the over-the-counter availability of DHEA, effectively criminalizing those who rely on this supplement for its life enhancement benefits. DHEA will move from a current safe supplement to the list of controlled substances classifying it as an anabolic steroid if opposition is not mounted against this new bill.
Please take action today to oppose S.1137 or DHEA will no longer be obtainable. To write your elected officials and tell them that you support the continued freedom of availability of DHEA supplements, go to the “Save Our Supplements” website www.saveoursupplements.org. Just put your ZIP code into the designated box in the top left corner and click “Go” to send an e-mail to your Senators and Representative letting them know you oppose any legislation that would make DHEA illegal.
Freedoms must be fought for and protected, if we are to preserve our right of an individual's right to choose - including continued access to options in healthcare. Your health depends on your taking action today!
Thank you for your prompt action.
Tom
Please let others know about this as well & get them to take action! We want to be able to buy Beverly Supplements & others of our choice & should have the right to do so in a free country.
Oh and if this has upset you, don't worry, you can go to your corner tavern, light up a pack of cigerettes, and drink a quart of Jack Daniels to make you "feel" better. At least we have some lobbies that allow us to have real drugs that taxpayers subsidise companies to produce, that actually kill us! (crazy but true)
If You Take DHEA Supplements, You Might Be A Criminal!
IMPORTANT: Visit www.saveoursupplements.org and enter your zip code in the upper left to e-mail your elected officials about this.
I hope this is ok to post here. I do believe this is important to all physical culturists in America. There is a move to ban supplements, yes even the natural ones those that Beverly sells!!!
It started with ephedra, then prohormones, now DHEA but it will NOT stop there.
Whatever your feelings on those supplements are, understand that these are the first dominos in a powerful lobby to take control of ALL supplements Please understand that there is a move underway backed by powerful drug companies & certain medical groups that would make you have to go to your doctor for a prescription for vitamin C & protein powder!!! This is just the start! This is not a joke! THis is very serious and many never thought it could go as far as it already has. And this lobby won't stop until your rights to choose your nutrition & nutrition supplement sources, have been taken away. Its all about money.
Do something today to protect your rights to freely choose your nutrition & the supplements you take. If you don't you will only have yourself to blame when you can no longer purchase your protein powder, or vitamins at a local health food store of your choice, but will instead be forced to pay exorbitant costs through a doctor & then pharmaceutical company!
The Link is here:
http://www.saveoursupplements.org.
Please do something today!
Thank you,
Tom
JUNE 14, 2005 CHICAGO / On May 26, 2005, Senators John McCain (R-Arizona), George Allen (R-Virginia), and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) introduced a new Senate bill, S. 1137, which seeks to add DHEA to the list of federally controlled anabolic steroids.
DHEA - or dehydroepiandrosterone - is secreted by the adrenal glands and is the most abundant natural steroid-like compound in the human body. It is involved in the manufacture of testosterone, estrogen, progesterone, and corticosterone. DHEA declines with age, so by age 65, our bodies make only 10 to 20% of what they did at age 20. DHEA has been an enormously popular anti-aging supplement for middle-aged and elderly Americans. Many anti-aging specialists believe that replacing DHEA in later life will have multiple beneficial effects. Anti-aging physicians recommend DHEA to patients because it can enhance immune resistance against infection, reduce the risk of age-related diseases, including cancer, coronary artery disease, and osteoporosis, improve blood sugar control and help prevent type II diabetes, facilitate weight loss and help convert fat to lean muscle, control Alzheimer's disease, lupus, AIDS, Epstein-Barr virus infection, and chronic fatigue syndrome, treat! herpes, menopause, depression, memory, and erectile dysfunction, and increase life expectancy.
The suggestion that DHEA can cause adverse side effects such as liver damage, stroke, heart disease, cancer, etc. in humans has, to-date, failed to be proven by scientific study. Indeed, its daily use by millions of people for general health benefits argue strongly to the contrary. The careful use of DHEA in a controlled setting, monitored by a physician, is both and safe and efficacious. To strip Americans of their access to DHEA without demonstrated public health risks is unwarranted.
Senate Bill 1137 seeks to ban the over-the-counter availability of DHEA, effectively criminalizing those who rely on this supplement for its life enhancement benefits. DHEA will move from a current safe supplement to the list of controlled substances classifying it as an anabolic steroid if opposition is not mounted against this new bill.
Please take action today to oppose S.1137 or DHEA will no longer be obtainable. To write your elected officials and tell them that you support the continued freedom of availability of DHEA supplements, go to the “Save Our Supplements” website www.saveoursupplements.org. Just put your ZIP code into the designated box in the top left corner and click “Go” to send an e-mail to your Senators and Representative letting them know you oppose any legislation that would make DHEA illegal.
Freedoms must be fought for and protected, if we are to preserve our right of an individual's right to choose - including continued access to options in healthcare. Your health depends on your taking action today!
Thank you for your prompt action.
Tom
Please let others know about this as well & get them to take action! We want to be able to buy Beverly Supplements & others of our choice & should have the right to do so in a free country.
Oh and if this has upset you, don't worry, you can go to your corner tavern, light up a pack of cigerettes, and drink a quart of Jack Daniels to make you "feel" better. At least we have some lobbies that allow us to have real drugs that taxpayers subsidise companies to produce, that actually kill us! (crazy but true)